Keynote Addresses
*These Keynote addresses can be customized and expanded into a workshop(s).
*Don’t Rock The Boat If You’re Not Willing To Paddle: A Framework for Building Healthy Teams
Teamwork is not mastering sophisticated theory, but practicing a small set of principles over time (U.N.I.T.Y.). Success is embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. But how do you handle dysfunction within your team? This address looks at the dysfunction and offers solutions to building healthy teams. Participants will be given a framework for building healthy teams and effective strategies and activities.
*Everything Rises or Falls with Leadership
A transformational leader is one who excites and inspires people to perform far beyond their own expectations of themselves. Transformational leaders practice certain behaviors that cause their people to feel stronger, happier, more confident, and more committed. Organizational improvement begins with development--development of people and the work culture to keep the learning organization vibrant and prepared to meet new needs and challenges. This address will present practical tools and a framework to build leadership capacity in your organization.
*Transformation: A Tool for Change!
Change is inevitable; growth is optional. The core issue with change in any setting is not strategy, structure, culture, or systems. All of those elements are important. But the core of the matter is always about changing the behavior and attitudes of people. Highly successful change efforts happen when we help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence the emotions, not just the thoughts. This keynote was created to hit the felt needs of staff to influence both the emotions and thoughts for the urgency to change.
*Personal Leadership: Key to Organizational Growth
Wellness issues are part of life and the workplace…you can’t change that. But your organization can make a difference by how you coach your people. The competitive advantage of developing a company, organization, or school culture based on strong personal leadership skills is clearly worth the investment. The key to effective personal leadership development is the process of integrating principle-centered solutions to empowering individuals as an organizational cultural mindset, not a training program.
Additional Education Keynotes
*H.E.L.P. (Healthy Effective Lessons in Parenting) A Guide for Parents and Teachers
This keynote is based upon Dr. Mike Stabile’s book by the same title. George Barna (a leading pollster) says that 98% of parents believe that they have the primary responsibility to develop the character formation of their children. Unfortunately, only small percentages do anything about it. Barna goes on to say that this is because parents lack models, accountability, motivation, time prioritization, and especially training in how to parent. Research, also, indicates the two most influential relationships in a child’s life are parents and teachers. This address focuses on how to parent through practical skills and tools that you can apply immediately to children and youth.
*"7" Principles for School Improvement and Staff Development
Dr. Mike Stabile has developed an approach that leads a learning community through a process of assessment using current research and best practice in teaching and learning to evaluate their current realities and then capture a collaborative vision for a desired future. The assessment process is collaborative and a shared decision-making model. Each stage works toward developing a culture for teaching and learning that meets the needs of all learners in your unique setting.
*Mission Possible Developing a Technology Integrated Curriculum
This session is all about the technology integration process. It begins with current theories and best practices of teaching and learning and how technology is a part of the educational process. Successful integrated technology projects from teachers and students are presented to show a proven effective technology integration process. Participants leave with specific project ideas and hands-on work for integration of technology into their curriculum.
*Catching the Heart of Inclusion: It's not about me or you, but us!
Inclusion is more than a special education mandate, but beliefs, commitments, and the courage to have a learning community that embraces in practice that every student can learn and had unlimited potential. This presentation focuses on the heart of inclusion: We are all in this together. Participants will be given practical effective strategies and activities for promoting inclusive teaming.
*Motivating the Unmotivated: In order to teach them you first reach them!
This presentation starts out with lessons learned from an alternative school for behavioral disordered "gang" students from the South-side of Chicago. Do you know your students' unique way? Do you know their strengths, learning style, passions, and drives? If the answer is "no", then this presentation is for you! Some practical tools and activities will be presented to help your understanding of how to motivate your students.